Painless driver installation - what do you use?

Posted on 2021-10-08, 23:17

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by seleryba

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As the inventory of old hardware pieces grows, I consume a lot of time installing the drivers on those. My typical "run" looks like that: - find and download all needed drivers (easy for e.g. Thinkpad, hard for OEM notebooks) - burn those on CD (cry a lot for the machines without cd drive, but let's …

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Re: Opti 82c929 Soundcard - missing OSC

Posted on 2021-10-07, 23:10

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I have a similar one - there are two: 16.9344 Mhz and 24.576 Mhz. Check which one you have as X1 and you'll have X2's value.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-13, 16:24

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by seleryba

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This Gigabyte board has a self-destruct feature where a voltage regulator fries any caps nearby. Hopefully a perfect pair for the gorb after recapping. 522.jpg The GA-BX2000, love it, have some sentiment especially for the Dual Boot logo on startup. Could you say more about its design issue? I have …

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Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-08, 00:32

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by seleryba

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S423 P4 1.5 GHz + some cheap ECS board for it. Good stuff.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-06-16, 07:22

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by seleryba

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Nice to see another Toshiba fan. Yours packs a fair bit of power, especially the tft panel can do 16bit color. But I have to ask, why did you change from CCFL to LED? My T4400C's CCFL does need a little 2 minute "warm up time," but after that it's crisp and bright. Whites are also, surprisingly, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 22:23

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by seleryba

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Cleaned and tweaked the Toshiba Satellite 300CDT. I disassembled whole thing to the single screw, then cleaned deeply. Also, I've changed the internal batteries and replaced the thermal paste. Then, I replaced CCFL to the LED strip in the TFT module. After that, I assembled it again. 735ECF19-BEB2- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 18:41

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by seleryba

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Cleaned and tweaked the Toshiba Satellite 300CDT. I disassembled whole thing to the single screw, then cleaned deeply. Also, I've changed the internal batteries and replaced the thermal paste. Then, I replaced CCFL to the LED strip in the TFT module. After that, I assembled it again. 735ECF19-BEB2- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-30, 22:58

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by seleryba

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I know it's hard to find it so I just added the floppy file as attachment to this post, hopefully it will help someone sometime. You just click on "show all" under download options and then you get a list of all the downloadable files: https://archive.org/download/presario-524-restore-cd Haha, oh …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-30, 22:43

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Today I took care of my Compaq Presario CDS 520/524. Instead of standard clean install (DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11) I decided to install all the data from the Compaq Restore CD. I found one on the web: https://archive.org/details/presario-524-restore-cd but sadly the torrent file doesn't worked for me, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-26, 15:42

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by seleryba

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HanJammer wrote on 2021-05-26, 14:54: This NOS dual display adapter based on two CL-GD5429 chips. Found it in local ads for cheap. Great find! Do you know what's the use case? I suppose it can't be used on Windows 3.1 or DOS but on NT/ other systems?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-20, 23:59

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Made a few Adlibs today. 3AD15389-2E3C-425A-85A0-3BDE5AE0B4CE.jpeg Almost. Two are incomplete because I ordered too few logic chips and capacitors. Next week I'll fulfil them. And there's need to populate the second Yamaha chip - I need to find it in my basement. Plus add the goldpins. Tomorrow I'll …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 09:11

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gex85 wrote on 2021-05-10, 08:50: I combined it with 8 MB RAM, a Tseng ET4000 graphics card, Sound Blaster 2.0 CT1350B, double speed CD-ROM and a CF card for storage. Fun little system 😀 Excellent setup. CT1350B with CMS support I suppose?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 22:47

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by seleryba

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Also found two great and working boards with AMI Winbios: winbios01.jpg winbios02.jpg Biostar MB-1433/40/50UIV. Probably same as PCChips M912? Anyway, well-known board with big potential with its VLB slots and a good UMC chipset. [hr] pcchips.jpg PCChips M919. Geez, I love this one. Just look at …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 22:32

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by seleryba

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Tested a >10 of 386 and 486 motherboards I've bought over the months. 90% of the time was searching for model and manual with jumper settings and configuring itself. Found out that most of the motherboards are OK. Few of them have broken traces because of the barrel battery - that will be great for …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 13:49

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Awwww... What happened to all the pretty stickers? They are liquid now, living happily somewhere in the sewer line. This one with "Oliver Khan" funny typo as well (greets to the users from DE). :D khan.jpg What would you know, I was also recapping a SiS 630T board today to revive it (Jetway 630-TCF …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 12:25

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by seleryba

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After that I decided to do another retro restoration - recap of the one of best motherboard with PGA370 - ECS P6S5AT. Famous SiS 635T inside. Cleaned the board deeply. Then I've replaced capacitors with top-notch Nichicon PW and Panasonic FR series. Now this board should be stable as rock (pun …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 12:20

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And how it looks now: Filename IMG_5465.jpeg File size 1.09 MiB Views 443 views Filename IMG_5466.jpeg File size 707.6 KiB Views 443 views Filename IMG_5445.jpeg File size 1.66 MiB Views 443 views I need to buy or make the front flap. Also I will replace internal mono shitty speaker to the good …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 12:17

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In progress. I always use some car APC cleaners for restoring and cleaning plastics. Filename IMG_5436.jpeg File size 1.12 MiB Views 450 views Filename IMG_5437.jpeg File size 1.65 MiB Views 450 views Filename IMG_5438.jpeg File size 322.54 KiB Views 450 views

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 12:16

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by seleryba

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Finally I found some time to do the retro things, so I had a busy Friday. Last week I've bought the Commodore 1084 colour display. It was awful visually: Filename IMG_5432.jpeg File size 747.14 KiB Views 450 views Filename IMG_5433.jpeg File size 687.28 KiB Views 450 views Filename IMG_5434.jpeg …

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Re: New cache modules in 2021 and where to find them

Posted on 2021-05-06, 18:06

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by seleryba

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I rather ask if there is something still produced, without any risk of availability outage. Not the NOS-sale from the old warehouses. I more look for the new chips on the electronics parts sites like Mouser, Digikey, TME or similar.

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